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Prof. Dr. Koenraad Stroeken
Prof. Dr. Koenraad Stroeken
koen.stroeken@ugent.be
Academia
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Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Department of Art, Music and Theatre Sciences
Research group(s)
CARAM - Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality
Research Focus
Area studies
Art
Interculturalism
Media
Religion
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Projects
Projects as supervisor
Green science, technology and innovation from the south. An interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania
(
2023
-
2027
)
The musical instrument as a form of three-dimensional writing and score
(
2021
-
2024
)
What is kiasili? An environmental anthropology of changing foodscapes in West Tanzania
(
2019
-
2024
)
Governance, gender, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania (Phase II: VLIRUOS-IUS MU)
(
2018
-
2022
)
Dagbon music and the Hiplife zone in Ghana
(
2016
-
2020
)
Hypermobile learning in an immobilized environment. Digital anthropology of ICT use in four Tanzanian universities
(
2016
-
2020
)
Chokwe identity, gender and materiality (Caribu)
(
2016
-
2017
)
CongoConnect: Connections/Collections: power objects and institutions in Northeast Congo (1800-1960)
(
2015
-
2019
)
Culture and communication strategies in HIV prevention in Mozambique (VLIRUOS-IUS UEM)
(
2015
-
2018
)
The Hutereau expedition and chief Maloka. (Post)colonial layers of agency and exchange in NE Congo
(
2015
-
2019
)
Mfunzi. Applied digital anthropology
(
2015
-
2016
)
CongoConnect. Objects as agents. A historical-anthropological study of the Hutereau collection in the Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren
(
2015
-
2019
)
Evaluating ownership of development projects in Suriname (VLIRUOS-IUS AdKU)
(
2014
-
2018
)
Udubsit. Applied digital anthropology
(
2014
-
2015
)
The promises of the independence movement, ethnicity and voting in Tanzania
(
2013
-
2016
)
Governance, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania
(
2012
-
2018
)
Developing Zone-it. A location-based app for community-building and research
(
2012
-
2013
)
Nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda. Conceptualizations of an illness-in-the-making
(
2012
-
2017
)
An anthropological study of traditional healing in Mozambique
(
2011
-
2017
)
Social connectivity and HIV risk behavior. Mobile phones and sexuality in Yaoundé youth culture
(
2011
-
2014
)
Response styles and the quality of survey data. Evidence from Guyana
(
2011
-
2014
)
Filafani in Folona. Moddertextiel en Sadogo-divinatie bij de Senufo van Folona, Mali
(
2009
-
2013
)
Cooking life. The vibrant entanglement of food and human beings in Sri Lanka
(
2009
-
2013
)
Projects as co-supervisor
Urban landscapes of colonial/postcolonial health care in DR Congo
(
2015
-
2019
)
Projects as researcher
Tracing Tensors. Infracultural analyses of simplicated worlds
(
2022
-
2026
)
Charms. An anthropology of affect and materiality
(
2017
-
2022
)
Medicinal rule. A historical anthropology of kingship in eastern and central Africa
(
2013
-
2017
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Thomas, Troy D., et al. “Antecedents of Corruption Perception in Guyana.”
JOURNAL OF POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA
, vol. 16, no. 2, 2024, pp. 174–99, doi:10.1177/1866802x241235195.
Stroeken, Koenraad. “Comment on Econography (Daromir Rudnyckyj).”
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY
, vol. 65, no. 4, 2024, pp. 694–694.
Stroeken, Koenraad. “Op Zoek Naar de Duivel in Afrika : Bezeten, Behekst of Beduveld.”
Satan : Een Geschiedenis van de Duivel
, edited by Danny Praet, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2024, pp. 293–313.
Stroeken, Koenraad. “A Cultural Tensor: Reply to van Dokkum.”
Current Anthropology
, vol. 65, no. 6, 2024, pp. 1123–24, doi:10.1086/733206.
Stroeken, Koenraad. “Yeye : Don’t Kill the Snake (a Sukuma Simplication).”
More-than-Human Freedom : Zine Conference 2024
, edited by Emelien Devos et al., Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality, 2024, pp. 169–94.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology and Ethnography in Africa
Anthropology of Affect and Materiality
Medical Anthropology: Africa and the Diaspora
